Energy: A Step Toward Unity

Formally, the subject was how to deal with the world energy shortage
but the delegates to last week's 13-nation Washington Energy
Conference spent little time talking about that. The real subject was
U.S.-European relations, and the denouement was straight out of the
De Gaulle era: the U.S. got everyone to go along with a common approach
except France, which again played the role of odd country out at the cost
of a deepening split between itself and its Common Market partners.